Estates Administrator

Salary: £24,300 per annum. Contract: Permanent – 35 hours per week. 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave. Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities. Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages. Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover. Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.

This is an exciting opportunity based at our Head office in Cardiff. We are looking for an Estates Administrator to support a designated Regional Estates Manager and subsequently an allocated area of Services within the UK. You will support with a variety of tasks including undertaking regular updates to our systems across the Estates department including Compliance, Salesforce, travel, Utilities and aspects of H & S. As well as other general admin duties, you will be supporting our services by consulting with external contractors as and when necessary, to obtain any additional information relevant to any ongoing projects at our properties such as repairs or planned maintenance work. This will be a varied role, in which you'll need to provide an effective, efficient service which would suit an experienced administrative professional wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and families across the UK.

How you’ll help to create brighter futures

• Providing a high-quality range of administrative services to support our Estates and Facilities team.
• Managing, updating, and running reports from our internal databases.
• Conversing with a variety of external contacts, companies, and professionals from a variety of backgrounds both internally and externally.

Let’s talk about you

• Demonstrable experience within an estates administrative environment is desirable.
• Excellent customer service skills, with an ability to de-escalate challenging situations.
• Being effective, intuitive, flexible, and able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team, to meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in IT skills is a requirement for this role with advanced knowledge of using PCs on a business network running MS Windows and Office, along with email and internet and specific business applications i.e., finance.
• Experience of providing a confidential, professional service and to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role.
• Good at prioritising and meeting deadlines with excellent organisation and planning skills.

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.

Closing Date: Thursday 29th May 2025. Interviews will be week commencing 9th June in our Cardiff Office. Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children.